A planning board will tomorrow decide if a South Shore hotel will be able to go ahead with its controversial expansion plans.

The Development Applications Board will render a decision on whether the Elbow Beach Hotel will be allowed to realise its expansion dreams which have prompted nightmares for area residents.

The Paget hotel wants to construct a parking lot for some 189 cars and 60 motorcycles on land designated for agriculture.

Sixty-six new junior suites, a conference centre, ballroom and a tennis facility are also on tap.

But what has area residents upset is the proposal to build a service road and erect a waste treatment plant in an area designated woodland reserve.

The bid has been endorsed by the Ministries of Health, Works and Engineering, Agriculture and Tourism.

And the Planning Department's technical officers told the DAB during a meeting, last month, that they were "satisfied'' that the changes were "permitted forms of development and reasonable for this site''.

And they recommended that the board approve the hotel's applications.

One of the loudest objectors to the waste treatment plant is Elbow Beach neighbour, Stonington Beach Hotel.

Development plans show that the facility will be erected some 30 feet from the boundary separating the two hotels.

Some of Stonington's best hotel rooms are situated just 30 feet from the wooded boundary.

Residents of Cataract Hill, Paget, worry that their peaceful access road, which runs off South Road, will become a noisy, congested throughway.

And they are unhappy with the hotel's plans to have some of the undeveloped land, presently designated for tourism use, rezoned to residential.

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